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Imagining Animals : Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind.

Imagining Animals explores the making of animal images in art therapy and child psychotherapy. It examines two contrasting primitive states of mind: the investing of the world about us with life through animism and participation mystique, and the lifeless world of autistic states of mind encountered...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Case, Caroline
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; PART I Introduction: Working with children who are hard to reach; 1 An animal alphabet of our actual and symbolic relationship to animals; 2 Animals on stage in therapy: anthropomorphic animal objects; 3 Animation through the window: the beautiful and the sublime; PART II Introduction: Closeness and separation; 4 Separation and sleeping difficulties: helpful images with sleepless children; 5 The location of self in animals.
  • 6 Entangled and confusional children: analytical approaches to psychotic thinking and autistic features in childhoodPART III Introduction: Case study: the heart and the bone; 7 From calm to chaos and rage; 8 Things that go bump in the night, the 'fish pictures' and the development of clay-work; 9 The heart and the bone; 10 Working towards the end of therapy and conclusions; Bibliography; Index.